The Fate of America NPG Forum Paper by Tim Palmer June 2000 Click here for a downloadable, printable PDF version This Forum examines the current levels of destruction of the American environment by our current population growth, fueled by immigration, which continues to devastate our natural resources. Already ninety-eight percent of old growth forests have been destroyed, and a third …
Continue ReadingThe last 5 decades of the 20th century represented a period of unprecedented growth in the scale of the human enterprise.
Continue ReadingClick here for a downloadable, printable PDF version Better Not Bigger by Eben Fodor New Society Publishers, 1999 Reviewed by former NPG Executive Director Sharon McCloe Stein American attitudes toward growth reflect a great deal of ambivalence. Many see economic and population growth as good business, more consumers, more workers, more prosperity ÷ a rising tide that lifts all boats. For …
Continue ReadingA short definition of sustainability is the management of environmental and resource systems so that their ability to support future generations is not diminished.
Continue ReadingClick here for a downloadable, printable PDF version Illegal immigration, increasingly profitable for powerful interests, has added as many as 12.5 million to the U.S. population since 1960. Ending the flow will demand a national consensus to fully fund enforcement, insulate it from pressures, and mandate electronic verification of work eligibility. The public social costs of illegal settlement must be …
Continue ReadingPopulation growth only postpones the day of reckoning. According to the Census Bureau’s 1992 most likely “medium”‘ projection, there is the troubling prospect of nearly 400 million Americans by mid-century.
Continue ReadingAround 1969, college and university students developed a major interest in the environment and, stimulated by this, I began to realize that neither I nor the students had a good understanding of the implications of steady growth, and in particular, of the enormous numbers that could be produced by steady growth in modest periods of time.
Continue ReadingDr. Bartlett’s comments on the 20th Anniversary of “Forgotten Fundamentals of the Energy Crisis” Background Around 1969, college and university students developed a major interest in the environment and, stimulated by this, I began to realize that neither I nor the students had a good understanding of the implications of steady growth, and in particular, of the enormous numbers that could …
Continue ReadingThere are many pieces to our environmental puzzle, which when assembled can ensure that our planet and everything on it has a joyful ride now and into the indefinite future.
Continue ReadingVery few writers seem to recognize that growth cannot continue forever in a limited space, and that mathematical truism applies to the real world, today.
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